That’s exactly what Heras-Casado and Concerto Koln have done on their latest CD. It features a program of instrumental and vocal works associated with Farinelli, the legendary 18th century singer who ...

Mark Rylance stars in his wife Claire van Kampen's play with music, 'Farinelli and the King,' as the 18th-century Spanish monarch whose chronic melancholia could be soothed only by the heavenly ...

Who thought that George Frideric Handel would ever get a jukebox musical on Broadway? Nine arias from seven of the composer’s early 18-century operas are featured in Claire van Kampen’s new play, ...

Historians and scientists have exhumed the remains of the legendary castrato Farinelli in Italy, to study the anatomical effects of castration carried out on young boys to turn them into high-pitched ...

The legendary castrato singer Farinelli (1705–1782) suffered from a disease typical of post-menopausal women, according to the first-ever osteological analysis of a eunuch. Subscribe to read this ...

The Oscar winner delivers a tour de force performance as King Philippe V of Spain, whose sanity hangs on the voice of the castrato Farinelli. With his courtiers plotting to depose the mad king of ...